Re: [PATCH 2/5] USB Kconfig: Select SCSI for USB Mass Storage support

From: Stefan Richter
Date: Sun Jan 06 2008 - 08:42:41 EST


David Lang wrote:
> On Sun, 6 Jan 2008, Stefan Richter wrote:
>> Module autoloading is quite different.
>
> but if boot scripts can figure out what modules to autoload, why can't
> scripts be written to figure out what drives to build into a system?

Because build-time configuration has to deal with different, more
complex questions than run-time configuration. For starters, build-time
configuration narrows down the options for run-time configuration.
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